Efficient quorumcast routing algorithms

Abstract
We study the quorumcasting problem which is a generalizationof multicasting. While multicasting consistsof sending a message to a select group of m nodes in asystem of n nodes, quorumcasting sends a message toany q out of these m nodes. The need to communicatewith an arbitrary q-subset of a predefined set arises inmany distributed applications, such as distributed synchronizationand updating a replicated resource. Twostraightforward solutions are to send the message to individual...

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